It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and...

Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes...

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. “It’s going to be so boring here without you. And I’m going to have to deal with Grandmother on my own! You need to e-mail, text, call,...

The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

…But that’s just the thing, right? Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common...

Some people won’t have kids, but I’m not going to have parents. I’m burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

The most powerful element in this Universe is love. If you think it does not exist, then you are not sure about your own existence too.

The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn’t change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the family saw the shape of that beloved nose, the air would flee the...

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a...

Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim’s freedom. For just like Mahtab’s namesake, as the moonlight was beholden to...

That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah,...

Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and...

I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew...

We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other’s side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and...

Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora wa Afrika Kusini. Utu ukafanya awasamehe binadamu wenzake. Urithi wa Nelson Mandela kwetu...

How’re we getting to King’s Cross tomorrow, Dad?” asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding.”The Ministry’s providing a couple of cars,” said Mr. Weasley.Everyone looked up at him.”Why?” said Percy curiously.”It’s because of...

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by...

Nudge threw her arms around my neck. ‘I love you Max! I love all of us too!’Yeah, me too,’ Said the Gasman. ‘I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or...

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I’ve always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out...

One of your three mothers did the cooking? How traditional,”Naomi said with a smirk.

The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation.

The wisest thing my grandpa ever said to me before he died was “Stop!” Thinking back, I don’t know if he was talking to me or the car that ran him over. I prefer to...

The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in...

I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant...

Bloodlines and last names didn’t make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were.

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

Some people say I look like my mom, while others say I look more like my dad. I guess it all depends on what I’m wearing.

People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly...

I’ll give you the mother-in-law discount—200% of the 50% off sales price.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole...

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. ‘You still have a family,’ she whispers.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds...

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it....

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...